League of Legends Card Game Revealed in Twitter Hack

The existence of a prototype card game created by League of Legends developer Riot Games was revealed yesterday when Riot president Marc Merrill's Twitter account was hacked.

Merrill's account was taken over yesterday by a hacker going by the name "Jason." The individual proceeded to tease images of a Riot-developed card game, which first surfaced in the form of an image of a login screen for a game called League of Legends: Supremacy -- a name Riot has trademarked. The hacker proceeded to explain the game was a standalone product and was "fully completed, but never released," before threatening to upload "all the images" of the game, "including the card images."

That threat was accompanied by the caveat, "Unless Marc Merrill emails me not to." Whether or not that happened we don't know, but Merrill has since regained control of his Twitter account and deleted the hacker's tweets. Other images the hacker had uploaded to imgur have also been removed.

Merill tweeted last night, "Yup, someone got onto my Twitter account. Yup, someone shared some old screens from one of the many prototypes we've experimented with." That tweet was followed up by one that reads, "We're always working on a variety of new ideas for League & beyond. Lots of experimentation that may never see the light of day." Finishing that thought, a final tweet on the subject states, "But lots more that does: Jinx video, Lucien login screen, CHEW, Udyr Comic, Cinematics, etc."